The Way Christianity Has Been Used
THE WAY CHRISTIANITY HAS BEEN USED
People have been taught that blackness is something of a divine curse-that Blacks are the children of Ham and that Ham was one of the sons of Noah who mocked Noah in his drunkenness and Noah cursed him. And of course, he was doomed to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. So today, Black folk think of themselves in a servitude posture. Black folk think of the color of their skin as a curse. They think of the texture of their hair as something terrible; the thickness of our lips or the shape of our noses. This is not because we desire to think this way, but we live in America where white standards of beauty have been imposed upon us.
Now, how do you break this? By telling the truth. The truth is that Black people have a beauty that is ours. It is uniquely ours. White people have their beauty. As White people learn to appreciate themselves, and we learn to appreciate ourselves, then maybe we can appreciate one another. But truth must be told. The truth is, according to our own scholars, our own scientists...
Mendel said:
1. Black skin color is from a dominant gene, and white skin color is from a recessive gene.
2. Dark eye color is from a dominant gene, and light eye color is from a recessive gene.
3. You can get a recessive trait from dominant genes, but you can't get a dominant trait from recessive genes.
Dr. Leakey:
He was looking for the origin of human beings. He went to Europe, but he didn't stay there long. He kept right on moving and he found the origin of man in Africa.
Now scholars of genetics have taken the mitochondrial DNA and have traced the origin of modern human beings to the Black woman. Look, we are the father of all modern human beings. Tell it from the mountain that Black people are the original people of the Earth. That doesn't make us better, but it says that we are your father-we are your mother, and you should honor your father and mother that your days may be long.
People have been taught that blackness is something of a divine curse-that Blacks are the children of Ham and that Ham was one of the sons of Noah who mocked Noah in his drunkenness and Noah cursed him. And of course, he was doomed to be a hewer of wood and a drawer of water. So today, Black folk think of themselves in a servitude posture. Black folk think of the color of their skin as a curse. They think of the texture of their hair as something terrible; the thickness of our lips or the shape of our noses. This is not because we desire to think this way, but we live in America where white standards of beauty have been imposed upon us.
Now, how do you break this? By telling the truth. The truth is that Black people have a beauty that is ours. It is uniquely ours. White people have their beauty. As White people learn to appreciate themselves, and we learn to appreciate ourselves, then maybe we can appreciate one another. But truth must be told. The truth is, according to our own scholars, our own scientists...
Mendel said:
1. Black skin color is from a dominant gene, and white skin color is from a recessive gene.
2. Dark eye color is from a dominant gene, and light eye color is from a recessive gene.
3. You can get a recessive trait from dominant genes, but you can't get a dominant trait from recessive genes.
Dr. Leakey:
He was looking for the origin of human beings. He went to Europe, but he didn't stay there long. He kept right on moving and he found the origin of man in Africa.
Now scholars of genetics have taken the mitochondrial DNA and have traced the origin of modern human beings to the Black woman. Look, we are the father of all modern human beings. Tell it from the mountain that Black people are the original people of the Earth. That doesn't make us better, but it says that we are your father-we are your mother, and you should honor your father and mother that your days may be long.
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